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>> thank you to tom foreman for that report. talking about the currents and how the piece traveled. >> the indian ocean gyre that moves counterclockwise. >> a good explanation and models to explain how this happened. >> the movement is so slow here which is why this has taken so long to wash up ashore here. good to see you. we will talk about the global circulation pattern and with the ocean currents here. focus on the search area and where they had been focusing the search and where it continue...

Down in that primary search zone off the coast australia. why, you say? because of the currents in the indian ocean. they do a counter clockwise movement. if could i draw a circle there, innocent middle of the indian ocean, i would do that. you would see counter clockwise, thats what the currents do. they believe it is entirely possible that months, even a year later, it picked up debris and then dropped it over there at reunion island. and what is staggering is the fact that they found this pie...

Ocean currents that we have been talking about took over. there are strong enough currents here that given enough time they could carry a piece lick this all the way across there and have it wash up on the shore like this. what we have right now is a combination of what we know and what we still dont know. those big, big questions. how did it happen? where did it go? even if they determine this is part of the plane, those could still be out there for quite some time. >> so many questions. tom, l...

Youre starting to say, well, is it a 76? is it an a-310 from another incident in that part of the world. is it 370. then you start looking at pieces where it might go. the flap actuator, where that would have assembled on to it. and you start piecing together exactly the part of the aircraft that would have been. >> let me bring in jennifer gray. jennifer, if you could, richard was just talking about the distance from where this was found to australia where they believe this might have gone down...

The lead officials, the malaysia airlines search have so far not commented. contacted by cnn, boeing would only say it is continuing to provide technical expertise to the search teams. everyone being very cautious. as they should be. whats the next step? >> a french officials have told us they contacted the lead agency, which investigators accidents. we have to stress that reunion island is a french-controlled territory, and that wing part is still at a french military facility on the island. ...

Depending on the exact spot you begin from, the distance across the united states of america. could it have simply flown this way from up here? could all this be wrong? could it have flown? not very likely. because if the calculations are right, you cant tell from a flat map, but it would have run out of gas about here. theres not much likelihood that it flew this way. if it did, how come nobody saw debris before now? what were probably talking about, wolf, is ocean currents. there are a lot of ...

Contest. >> wouldnt think so. >> all right. so why are we seeing so many shark attacks this year? is there something biologically happening -- >> yeah. >> -- that we have not experienced before? >> yeah there is. the oceans are empty of food. they are mostly empty of sharks but whatever few sharks are left the fish they eat are missing, ed. we have overfished so hard that 9 out of 10 commercial fisheries are in collapse. the sharks are hungry. and if that isnt bad enough the ocean currents are c...

Californias most beautiful coastline. sara sidner, cnn, san pedro. >> its a back-breaking cleanup effort that continues off the coast of california. our meteorologist derek van dam is at the world weather center and more with how they mop up the slick. how do you do it? basically go along the coastline and get all of that oil? >> george, what theyre trying do is a monumental task. its a moving target, this 9 1/2-square mile oil sheen is what its called is moving, and its moving because of variou...

But there are reports a sighting miles from that original spill, west of santa barbara. this is thanks to ocean currents and wave patterns. around certainly the wind say factor. northeasterly winds at 10 to 15 knots. that will continue to push this oil across the ocean surface. so theyve recovered about 10% of those 2,500 barrels of spilled oil. i want to jump across the united states to another situation were covering actively. working together with the ridge over the east, theyre pulling toget...

That putrid smell that the oil can give off. this oil has really spread out in many directions. in fact, on wednesday when it originally occurred, george, it was about 9 1/2 square miles in diameter. or in circumference. and basically, this took place just about a few miles west of santa barbara. so just putting this in perspective here for you. but by thursday, thats when things change. ocean currents, winds across this region and also waves moving the oil sheen, which is that thin surface laye...